We used a scripted field to automatically reformat a text label representing a version to a number so that we can easily search it and query for tickets matching a version number > or < a given version.
However this approach does not work in Jira Cloud because scripted fields are actually evaluated when a user press the button to view them.
We would really appreciate an automatic background refresh of scripted fields so that they can be effectively used in JQL
Same here. Scripted fields are not very useful if there is no way to process the script somehow to make the JQL research accurate.